It seems like many of you listened as we have had major shifts in the last 11 months.

IE 6 has fallen from 51.8% of our traffic to 25.3 – a whopping 51% drop.

All IE versions overall are now 77.1% of traffic vs 88.4% – a 13% decline

Of the IE 6 use over half of it come from 4 organizations led by United Healthcare and some portion of Marsh Mercer that still uses a “Johnson Higgins” named server. Nice to see technology leadership from 2 large publicly held industry leaders.

The best browsers have doubled their share to 20.1% as folks try them and realize that even IE 8 is an also ran:

Firefox – 8.3% to 13.1% – +58% (most flexible browser)

Safari – 1.4% to 4.1% – +258% (cleanest browser)

Chrome – .3% to 2.7% – +900% (fastest browser)

Opera et al – .1% to .2% – +200% (fast and fun)

Finally the real winner is – no surprise – mobile growth.

Last March it was 1.2% of our total traffic

That has now jumped to 3.1% for a growth rate of 260%.

A lot of folks must have upgraded Blackberries this year as they represent 2/3 of mobile visitors but iPhones are now 25% of mobile traffic and all others (Droid, Windows) make up <10% but growing rapidly.

We will be initiating a special section on the website for mobile users, adding mobile feeds for all of our radars that lack them and likely adding an iPhone app in the next few months.